High viral suppression amid demographic disparities: a US national cohort of people with HIV on a popular dating app
This remotely-recruited US national survey showed high self-reported VS among PWH on a popular GSN-app, in high concordance with laboratory-confirmed VS in a sub-sample. Stimulant use was reported by over one-third of participants, with lower reported VS in this group. Inequities in awareness of VS status among younger, Black, and stimulant-using people with HIV (PWH) and lower VS among younger and stimulant-using PWH should be ameliorated through targeted care reengagement and adherence interventions, potentially via GSN-apps.
Authors
- Sabina Hirshfield (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2649-469X)
- Matthew A. Spinelli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6368-8664)
- Helmut H. Schmidt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-5478-2997)
- Christian Grov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6871-3531)
- Megan J. Heise (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6651-2381)
- Alexa B. D’Angelo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5260-340X)
- Keith J. Horvath (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1372-7244)
- Dustin T. Duncan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8586-8711)
- Adam W. Carrico (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8146-5701)
- Tyler Martinson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6750-3954)
- Mallory O. Johnson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0480-2804)
- Renessa S. Williams (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4814-1534)
- Monica Gandhi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6674-5388)
- Kevin Sassaman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-4636-4045)
- Shivani Mahuvakar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-9406-4081)
Institutions
- University of Miami (US)
- City University of New York (US)
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University (US)
- Florida International University (US)
- San Diego State University (US)
- Columbia University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- AIDS
- Published
- 2025-03-05
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/qad.0000000000004173
- Primary Topic
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00